The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-08

Antioch and Mount Pisgah and Coronation and
Lenox and st. Martins and Fountain and Ariel
and Old Hundred. How they would bring
TO mind the praying circles, and communion
Gays, ana the Christmas festivals, and the
church worship in which on earth we mingled
have no idea that when we bid farewell to
earth we are to bid farewell to all these grand
OLD gospel hymns, which melted and raptured
our souls Tor SO many. years. Now, my friends,
If sin is discord and Righteousness is harmony,
let us get ont of the one and enter the other
After our dreadful civil war was over, and in
the summer of 1869, a great national
peace pea jubilee nnd was held in Bos,,
this church had been honored by the selection
of some of his music, to be rendered on that
occasion, accompanied him to the jubilee.
Forty thousand people sat. and stood in the
Thousands of wind and stringed instruments.
Twelve thousand trained voices. The master
pieces of all ages rendered hour after hour
and day after day - Handel's Judas
Maccabaeus," Sphor's "Last Judgment"
Creation" Memberships "Eliiah," Mey-
erbeers Coronation March," rolling on
and up i'll surges that beloved against the
heavens. The mighty cadences within were ac-
companied on the outside by the ringing of the
bells OF the city and cannon on the commons,
i'll exact time with the music discharged by
electricity, laundering their awful bars of a
harmony that astounded all nations. Some
tlmeS bowed my head and Wept. Sometimes
stood up in the enchantment, and sometimes
the effect was SO overpowering felt 1 could
not endure it. When all the voices were in
full chorus, and all the batons in full
wave, and all the orchestra in full triumph,
and a hundred anvils under mighty
hammers were in full clang, and all the tow
ers of the city rolled in their majestic sweet
ness, and the whole building quaked with the
boom of thirty cannon. Parepa Rosa, with
voice that will never again be equalled on
earth until the arch-angelic voice proclaims
that time shall be no longer, rose above all
other sounds in her rendering of our national
air, the Star Spangled banner. 1t was too
much for mortal, and quite enough for an
immortal to hear, and while some tainted,
one womanly spirit, released under its power,
sped away to be with God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in the whole
worlds peace jubilee, and all islands of tho
sea join the five continents, and all the voices
and musical instruments of all nations COM
bine, and all the organs that ever sounded
requiem of sorrow sound only grand march
of joy, and all the bells that tolled for burial
ring for resurrection and all the cannon that
ever hurled death across the nations sound to
eternal victory, and over all the acclaim
of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there will
be heard one voice sweeter and mightier than
any human or angelic voice, voice once full
OF tears, but then full of triumph, the voice Of
Christ saying: 81 am Alpha and~Omega, the
beginning and the end the first and the last"
Then at the laying of the top-stone of the
world history the same voices shall be heard
as when, at the laying of the words corner
stone, 1.-The morning stars sang together"